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Recently, frequent exceptional rebooting happened to my PC, say every hour. I did spend some to figure it out because that I know that kind of problem could be very complicated. It may happen to software and hardware also.

At first, I was trying to uninstall the newly installed software, such as AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, one of my favorite utility for my PC. The process of uninstallation is conducted through  Revo Uninstaller, another my preferable free tool. Once uninstallation is done, I did registry cleaning by using Wise Registry Cleaner. (It’s also free and wonderful.)

Unfortunately, the above works didn’t fix that problem and the rebooting happened as frequently as before. I ever heard that the rebooting with Windows XP is a smart replacement of blue-screen, an famous windows flaw which is well known. I did a try to disable the automatic rebooting once the error occurs in control panel. As expected, the system crashed again about an hour later and, instead of rebooting, a familiar blue screen shows up. By examining the error displayed, I doubted that there may have problem on my memory stick.

Then, I downloaded ”Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic” and burned a boot CD. That tool is smoothly loaded to do thoroughly checking on my memory stick. Shortly, the problem is addressed. A checking (LRAND) can not go through successfully. In order to isolate the incorrect one from two memory sticks, I tried to have each on them plugged separately. The very strange thing is that the two individual memory sticks are all passed the checking on memory. Is that the answer? Two working memory sticks can not working together.

The last try helped me to have those two memory sticks working properly. What I did is to switch the slot for those two memory sticks. Eventually, the problem is solved and now my PC can last working over 12 hours (After the problem is addressed.) It seems that there is unfitting issue on the slot with memory stick.

Thanks to the free utilities I’m working with, I have my PC back to working well.

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